Coinflation gone?

[coindood]

It's my go-to, their silver calculators are a godsend. Where'd they go?

[beauanderos]

that's odd

here's another:

http://www.silverrecyclers.com/Calculators/coin_calculator.aspx

[natsb88]

Coinflation is working for me.

[beauanderos]

I get a page called WhistleOut when I try it.

[coindood]

that's odd

here's another:

http://www.silverrecyclers.com/Calculators/coin_calculator.aspx

Nice. Thanks!

Still weird though.

[coindood]

I get a page called WhistleOut when I try it.

Me too.

[blackrabbit]

Coinflation is there when I go there right now.

[coindood]

Now this is really weird.

Using Firefox brings up Coinflation no prob, using IE7 brings up WhistleOut.

WTF is going on?

[Insert IE7 jokes here ]

[tdtwedt]

Try this link.

http://www.coinflation.com/silver_coin_values.html

[fasteddy]

I kept going to it and it was offline so I finally removed it off my desk top last month...maybe I will go look for it. It is a great reference.

[highroller4321]

http://www.coinflation.com/coins/silver ... lator.html

[natsb88]

I get a page called WhistleOut when I try it.

Me too.

Do you guys by chance have the same ISP? Could be an incorrect DNS entry.

[coindood]

Try this link.

http://www.coinflation.com/silver_coin_values.html

That's my bookmark for them, character for character. Yours works but my bookmark goes to the other site.

"Dave...my mind is going...I can feel it..."

[pennypicker]

I use firefox and coinflation.com takes me there every time.

[coindood]

Try this link.

http://www.coinflation.com/silver_coin_values.html

Just replaced by orig bookmark with this same one, and now it works fine.

Yet another journey into the bizarre world of the interwebs.

Thanks for everyone's input.

[silverstacker]

Coinflation is working for me.

Working for me as well.mpaal isn't working though

[fansubs_ca]

If your ISP's DNS resolvers (or other outside DNS resolvers you may be using) aren't
up to date you might be getting re-directed due to a DNS cache poisoning attack:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_spoofing

So this would be why only people on certain ISPs (or maybe just one ISP) are affected
by it but the rest of the internet gets to the site fine.

Coinflation.com (or www.coinflation.com) should resolve to one of these IP addresses:

104.16.74.168
104.16.75.168
104.16.76.168
104.16.77.168
104.16.78.168

Those of you who are getting sent to annother site if you open up a
command prompt window and type "ping www.coinflation.com"
(without the quotes ^_-) what IP address do you get?

Possible solutions you can implement at your end include:

#1: Using an alternative DNS Service like Google Public DNS:
https://developers.google.com/speed/pub ... /faq?hl=en

#2: Operate you own resolvers. (Much more difficult. ^_-)

#3: Add an entry to your computer's hosts file to override DNS for
that one domain. This has the problem of becoming out of date
if the site moves to a different server and doesn't do anything
about any other sites that may be affected.

For the record the resolvers run by shaw.ca (my ISP) are resolving
coinflation.com just fine.

After a certain amount of time what's in the cache will expire so unless
the attack is repeated things will go back to normal.

If after reading the Wikipedia article you think that's scary you wouldn't
believe the holes you could drive a truck through at the routing level if
you are at the right places on the internet. (Can't be messed with at
the end user level but most ISPs high enough up the chain can manipulate
certain things in BGP.)

Basically the internet was largely designed to work on the honour system
in the days when the participants were few and concerned about their
reputation. Over time as exploits are found fixes are developed but those
fixes have to actually be implimented to help the situation.

[IdahoCopper]

Pressing F5 is my go-to. It refreshes your browser's cache.

I clicked the link tdtwedt provided and was sent to Coinflation.

[coindood]

Thx for that informative post fansubs.

Every way I try to reach Coinflation works fine now.

[creshka46]

I was having the same problem too, yesterday (using chrome). but now it's working fine again. that was weird. Hope my pc isn't infected

[johnbrickner]

Visit that great website almost everyday. Ne'r a problem this last 2 days.